New Zealand Mathematical Olympiad Committee

2011 June Problems

These problems are intended to help students prepare for the 2011 camp selection problems,
used to choose students to attend our week-long residential training camp in January.
The solutions will be posted in about one month’s time, but can be obtained before then by
email if you write to one of us with evidence that you’ve tried the problems seriously.
Good luck!

Chris Tuffley, 2011 NZ IMO team leader

c.tuffley@massey.ac.nz
Ilya Chevyrev, 2011 NZ IMO team deputy leader
ichevyrev@gmail.com

1. Find the least integer k for which the number 2010 can be expressed as the sum of k
square integers.

2. Find all real numbers a, b, c which satisfy

a + 2b + 3c = 12,
2ab + 3ac + 6bc = 48.

3. A bucket contains n black balls and m white balls. Every turn you take two balls out:
if they are the same colour, remove them and add a black ball to the bucket. If they
have different colours, put the white ball back and remove the black one. What is the
probability that the last ball is black?

4. If a parallelogram ABCD is such that the angle bisector of ∠BAD intersects the segment
BC at its midpoint M , find ∠AM D.

June 3, 2011
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